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Men Quotes by P.D. James
- The world is changed not by the self-regarding, but by men and women prepared to make fools of themselves.
- A man who lives with nature is used to violence and is companionable with death. There is more violence in an English hedgerow than in…
- Man is diminished if he lives without knowledge of his past; without hope of a future he becomes a beast.
- The world of the terminally ill is the world of neither the living nor the dead. I have watched others since I watched my father,…
- I am fifty years old and I have never known what it is to love. I can write those words, know them to be true,…
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